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By J.D. FREDA inning one game out of 16 over two seasons is no impressive feat, at least in the positive sense, but that factor just may play in the Big Red’s favor come this football season.

Glen Cove stomped into 2018 training camp with the identity of the underdog and a rising crop of talent, a usually dangerous combination that has propelled many a team before it.

Seeing this potential, Big Red head coach Pete Kopecky, named as the New York Jets Coach of the Week last November, is irritated at seeing preparation time be cut short by the new Nassau County ruling.

“I think it is something they have to get straight,” Kopecky said. “We start scrimmaging late… we have to get good fast before the season.”

The formula for ‘getting good’ as Kopecky puts it, starts with an offense led by starting junior quarterback Devon Christopher. The 6-foot-1 Christopher bulked up to 205 pounds at the dawn of training camp and is a physical presence under center. That physicality translates into his dualthreat ability as a big, strong-armed athlete with the ability to tuck and run without avoiding contact for a first down.

“He’s a big guy but is north-south fast. He’s definitely a scary sight for defenders when he’s on the move,” Kopecky said. “I’ve seen a few times where he’s tucked to run and defenders really look like they don’t want to make contact.”

Kopecky says Christopher is working every day to become a better passer and complete quarterback. “He is a good overall quarterback, but he continues to work to want to get better,” Kopecky said.

Senior running back and St. Dom transfer Michael Vaughan looks to slot in as the primary running back. A talented basketball player with quick

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lateral speed, good feet, and most importantly a strong, sturdy base, Vaughan should play an integral part to this offense’s success.

Senior wide receiver Anthony Rant, who will be making his third varsity appearance this season, will look to build an early rapport with Christopher in camp and these early scrimmages.

Pete Rodriguez and Jared Jackson will add to this offense and be dangerous pieces for this coaching staff to use at their disposal.

The Big Red brought in a new offensive coordinator in a year where former starting quarterback Joseph Grella has graduated. Grella, adept at running the option during his time in high school, has moved on and Glen Cove now looks to line up in a spread offense with possible four-receiver sets as this coaching staff seems to have real excitement and hope for Christopher.

With Christopher being mobile and learning to play the new offense, Kopecky and his braintrust of coaches are looking to implement new-wave gameplans and offensive sets to throw off opponents that think they’ve got Glen Cove’s rhythm in years past.

“We’ll be running some RPO’s,” Kopecky said. RPO’s are a ‘run-pass option’ type of play popularized by the Philadelphia Eagles this past season where the offensive line blocks for the run but the quarterback reads the defense pre-snap and make a decision whether he will hand it off, throw for

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Defensively, the Big Red is not as fortunate returning a large number of integral players with ample experience at the position.

“We’ve basically just got our defensive backs returning this season,” Kopecky said. “Our front seven, I guess you can say, are all going to be relatively new to the position.”

Of those aforementioned defensive backs, Mayan Letellier, Pete Rodriguez, Matt Graff and Rant will provide a spark in both pass coverage, blitzing, and stopping the run. In front of them, the defensive line and linebackers will be fighting early in these scrimmages for experience.

“Usually we’ll have at least one linebacker every year that is a physical presence…around 200, 210 pounds,” Kopecky said. “This year we don’t have anyone over 160 pounds. We’ll have to play with a bit more finesse.”

Glen Cove will open up the season at home on Sept. 8 against Valley Stream South, a team that has employed a Wing-T offensive formation in year’s past. Kopecky says his team’s scheduled scrimmage with a similar style of play in Carle Place will tell Mayan Lettellier a lot about how ready it is for Week 1 of a redemption year.

“We want to be that surprise team, that underdog this year, but that means you’ve really, really gotta work for it,” Kopecky said.

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Senior Frank Smith, who served as the backup quarterback on this team in 2017, will slide fter a 6-4 campaign just in as the primary playcaller under one season ago, the Falcons center this fall. reloaded under new head “This is another Division-I coach Casey Neilly with a new lacrosse kind of guy,” Neilly nucleus of talent. The perennial said. “He can throw and run.

Conference IV contenders looks We’re working on his steps and to their vast assortment of athletic dropbacks right now. We have kids that double as top Long Island other pieces, but we will kind of go lacrosse recruits to make big plays. where he takes us where if he puts “We have about five or six it all together, we can do great starters returning from last year’s things.” team,” Neilly said. “Although we Also looking to carve ofare not a very veteran-led team, fensive roles are junior Christian the overall numbers are still the Eletto, a tight end, and St. same and we have a lot of very Anthony’s transfer Charles “Buck” athletic kids that are also very Andrea, an athletic playmaker with good lacrosse players.” an aggressive nose for the football.

In the past, the Falcons have Andrea will look to slide in as a relied heavily on their physical, short-yardage running back while ‘smash mouth’ style of offensive also able to line up wide as a re-play, but Neilly believes with differ- ceiver with good blocking abilities. ent personnel, his game plan will However, where Neilly change with it. ideally sees Andrea thriving is on “We have run the Power-I for- the defensive side of the football. mation with success before. We’ve “He is going to be one of outside had powerful, experienced backs linebackers in our 4-4 scheme, that were able to run behind our and he is a heavy hitter and can offensive line,” Neilly said. “But bring some momentum to our this year, we plan to run more of a team from the defensive side of spread offense with the athleticism the game,” Neilly said. With some we possess.” prior experience in coverage as a Senior running back Cooper free safety, he will be a headache Trepeta, who saw limited action in to gameplan for, for both his cover coverthe backfield and in the passing age, tackling and blitzing abilities. game a year ago, will be looked Behind, or rather in front of, upon as a leader of the offense the offensive potential, though, is as the primary tailback. He also a line that returns all five starters. doubles as a defensive back with ample athleticism in the Schedule secondary.

Senior Matt Reisiger will be September a Swiss-army knife of abilities 8 Seaford 2:00 p.m. that Locust Valley will place in 15 @ E. Rockaway 2:00 p.m. various sets on the offensive 22 @ C.S. Harbor 2:00 p.m. end. The senior will line up both 29 Malverne 2:00 p.m. as a tight end and wide receiver, October depending on the formation, 6 Mineola 3:00 p.m. and will slot in as one of the 13 @ Clarke 2:00 p.m. leading linebackers on the 19 @ Carle Place 6:30 p.m. defensive front.

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Juniors Matt Jones and Patrick Fallon, along with seniors Seamus Fallon and Chad Trainor will look to be the true nucleus of this offense.

“The identity of this team is our offensive line,” Neilly said.

“They will be the guys that everyone leans on.”

Neilly is preaching refusing to be shy to contact and not skipping a beat on the defensive side, and he believes that this defense is coming along more and more daily.

The Falcons open up their season at home against rival Seaford, the defending L.I. champs, on Sept. 8, 2018. “You know what you’re getting when it comes to Seaford,” Neilly said. “They’re not going to try and trick you; they’re going to lineup and try to beat you each play over and over. We’ve exchanged regular season wins back and forth over the past couple of years and I think this is going to be a low-scoring rivalry game.”

The strengths of Locust Valley will be carried and bolstered by the protection the offensive line is able to give first-year starting quar quarterback Smith and his unit. With a wide array of athletic, but not overly-physical talent, the Falcons may be looking at a potential high-scoring season, but only if their weapons can make the big plays in space. They look to find that out against their Conference IV competition.

Neilly noted the slogan on his team’s shirts will have to ring true this season: “In order to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man,” Neilly said.

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By J.D. FREDA fter a 5-4 finish with an impressive team in Conference IV a year ago, the North Shore Vikings were bumped to Conference III due to enrollment, however, head coach Dan Agovino says his kids have no fear.

“These kids are working hard, harder than any team I’ve had,” Agovino said. “Moving up, these kids will not back down. My question marks are on emotion and how the pace of the game will look to be, but they are putting in all the work they need to answer those questions.”

Nassau County enforced a new regulation where the allotted time for camp has been shortened before the start of the regular season by at least four practices.

“I think that has worked out pretty well,” Agovino said. “There is not a lot of down time, so the whole process has made us more structured.” after rumbling in Conference IV a year ago, this isn’t the Vikings first voyage into a higher division.

“We have moved into Conference III before,” Agovino said. “There may have been a knowing challenge moving up in competition before, and I am not saying that those teams had been concerned about that, but this team certainly is not.”

“The only thing that this team is concerned of, is going undefeated in Week 1, and the next thing they will be concerned of is going undefeated in Week 2, and so on,” Agovino said. In the alluded-to Week 1 matchup, the Vikings will travel to Plainedge, a team that is 17-9-1 in it’s last three seasons combined playing in tough Conference III play.

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challenge,” Agovino said. “These kids cannot wait to get back under the lights and start the season.”

Starting the season against a Conference III mainstay like Plainedge on their home field under the lights Sept. 7 certainly means North Shore has it’s work cut out for it, but Agovino doubled down on the notion that this is his hardest-working team, a compliment he can give them after just a summer workout program and a week into camp, by disclosing his nickname for the collective this year.

“This is my ‘Hard-Hat Crew’,” Agovino said. “They come in, clock-in, and they get the work done like a blue-collar kind of guy.

That kind of work ethic is what you need to beat these teams that we’ll be playing in this conference.”

Agovino also introduced the “Hard-Hat Award” for the hardest worker in camp in any given week.

This team’s work ethic may be what has its head coach lauding, but there is no shortage of talent to be found either.

Returning quarterback and 6-foot-2 senior Dan Livoti reclaims the starting quarterback position after a tremendous year under center in 2017. An extremely efficient passer, Livoti threw for almost 800 yards with nine touchdowns. He also ran for 577 yards on less than 80 attempts, averaging almost 7.5

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yards per carry, whilst adding three rushing touchdowns.

His knack for limiting turnovers is a key aspect of keeping opposition at bay, and his dual-threat ability keeps defenses guessing.

His No. 1 target and threeyear starter Luca Marra returns as the primary wideout coming off of a multiple receiving-TD year.

In the backfield, junior Will Scarola will handle the bulk of the carries after more than 300 yards and 3 scores on the ground whilst splitting time in the backfield a year ago. David Parrett will look to see some time in the backfield, especially on passing downs, and line up as a slot receiver on many three-receiver sets.

Cristiano Milo, a returning starting center, is looked upon to take more of a leadership role this year. “He really will be looked to as a mentor to the younger lineman this year, to make sure they know their protections, and keep them ready,” Agovino said. He will also slide in to the nose tackle spot on defense.

Agovino also credited Andrew Franco, 6-foot-1, 205 pound offensive linemen/middle linebacker with the ability to be a workhorse. “A true workhorse, animal, he will be important for us,” Agovino said.

“We want 8 or 9 hats to the ball defensively every time. We want to be playing together, not just making solo plays, and we’re working right now to do just that; to gel as a unit,” he said.

After kicking off the campaign at Plainedge, the Vikings, seeded No. 9 in Conference III, play their home opener in Week 2 against Floral Park.

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Oyster Bay Baymen work around tough numbers situation

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Baymen look to returning senior Yahve Jean-Baptiste at the running back position to create a spark for yster Bay, New York is one the offense as it’s leading rusher. of the most sought-after Jean-Baptiste looks to improve on townships in not just New a 2017 campaign where he found York State, but the entire country. the endzone four times on the It’s secluded and spacious housing ground. just off the coast of Long Island’s Oyster Bay also returns North Shore provide a select but junior quarterback Sean O’Toole, stellar few number of homes cawho was the team’s starting pable of attending the local public- quarterback as a sophomore last school system. Concurrently, Oyster season. He impressed at times in Bay High School holds one of the his sophomore season and has smallest public-school populations the ability and potential to step up in the county, according to a Niche and lead the offense to successful study for the 2019 school year. scoring drives. He also doubles as Head football coach Joe Knoll a safety on defense. is very aware of this and, although Along with Jean-Baptiste in some coaches may lament the the backfield, Dominick Vigliotti shortened allotted training camp will see some touches as a changetime put into effect this year by of-pace back that will give the Section VIII, Knoll believes it has defense some different looks. benefits for his team.

Knoll also spoke on the defensive “We have 17 kids in our prowess of Vigliotti. He will slot in program, and that is Varsity and JV as one of the top linebackers. combined in to one team,” Knoll Jake Rankin, a skilled wrestler said. “The shortened time doesn’t competing at 220 pounds in the give us any extra time to practice. winter, will use his physicality We don’t really have the ability to and size to overcome opposing put in subs when the heat gets to lineman on both sides of the ball, us…The prep is going as best as it serving as a team leader on both can right now.” the offensive and defensive lines.

The heat of late August, even Knoll also mentioned strong with the shortened schedule, is safety Liam Colvin, brother of taking its toll on the smaller team former Baymen Chris Colvin, and from the North Shore. Knoll still cornerback Robbie Zahradnik to fill points to the lack of turnout as a out a hopeful secondary. key factor in his team’s late-sumAlthough there is some talent mer preparation. to be had on this roster, the overall “It’s very difficult to run practice,” Knoll said. “We just Schedule can’t get the looks other teams can get right now in preparation September for the season.”

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Although the numbers are 15 Jericho 2:00 p.m. low for the Baymen coming in to 22 @ Carle Place 2:00 p.m.

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lack of numbers affects both the players and coaches.

“These guys all want more players,” Knoll said. “They don’t want to get tired and worn down to know that there is no one behind them. They are being as tough as they can, for as long as they can.”

Oyster Bay saw two wins last season, and both came to a lowly Friends Academy team whom has seen two wins in three seasons. The Baymen open Sept. 8 against that very same foe, whom they will see twice this season again. Despite the lack of numbers, Knoll expects his kids to compete.

“I can tell you this, the young men will play hard and they will play fast,” Knoll said. “That’s all we, as coaches, can ask for in these circumstances.”

The Baymen will be a hardworking bunch with a smattering of solid talent this fall, but will be plagued by increasingly small numbers. Without an excess of bodies, Knoll will work with a smaller playbook and have a smaller window of time to prepare both sides of the ball. However, this small team feel does lend itself to a unity and brotherhood that bands together in the face of adversity.

“I think this is a really good group of guys that will work hard, and work at being successful,” Knoll said.

Oyster Bay’s home opener is Week 2 against Jericho.

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